Optimal Employment of Tactical Air Forces in Theater Air Tasks — II

A Game-Theoretic Analysis

Leonard David Berkovitz, Melvin Dresher

ResearchPublished 1958

A problem concerned with allocating aircraft among three different air tasks — counter air, air defense, and support of ground operations — in a multistrike campaign as a two-sided war game. Previous studies assumed that in any strike of the campaign each plane allocated to air defense prevents one attacking plane from fulfilling its counter air mission. This Memorandum removes this assumption and derives the optimal strategies as a function of the air defense kill potential.

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  • Year: 1958
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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/RM2137
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Berkovitz, Leonard David and Melvin Dresher, Optimal Employment of Tactical Air Forces in Theater Air Tasks — II: A Game-Theoretic Analysis. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1958. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2137.html. Also available in print form.
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